Anyone had troubles with X-Fi on P5K...?

Magic Man · 4 Aug 2007 at 14:51

Had some troubles with my P5K (Premium) and an X-Fi card.

Anyone running an X-Fi in the bottom slot on a P5K without any issues?

Jokester · 4 Aug 2007 at 15:14

What's the rest of your specs?

Jokester

Magic Man · 4 Aug 2007 at 15:27

E6850, 8800GTX, 4 x 1GB RAM, Enermax 720 PSU, 2 x WD500AAKS HD's, 1 x SATA optical

Seemed like a BIOS conflict casing the POST to hang (got no beep, only fans starting up etc., nothing else). Take the card out and it POSTs fine.

Assuming it's just a conflict, maybe with the onboard sound, but am installing atm and will get everything else setup first before going back to try it again.

Jokester · 4 Aug 2007 at 15:30

Seems strange that it doesn't post with it in, not using Vista64 as well are you?

Jokester

Magic Man · 4 Aug 2007 at 16:47

No, new build before even OS installed.

Initial POST after build (and also after CMOS reset) - goes fine but once the BIOS is saved (i.e. update clock, restart etc.) the POST hangs, no beep, no video.

Take X-Fi out and restart, no problem. X-Fi just been taken out of another machine so no issues directly with that. Must be some sort of conflict.

MeatLoaf · 4 Aug 2007 at 18:25

There is a known problem with X-Fi cards, 4Gb of RAM and an 8800 combo, loads about it on creative forums.

Leave the x-fi in but remove 2gb ram and see if it still happens

Magic Man · 4 Aug 2007 at 22:59

Thought that was just 680 boards not P35?

MeatLoaf · 5 Aug 2007 at 00:49

Magic Man said:
Thought that was just 680 boards not P35?

No ive seen reports of several chipsets being affected. Did it eork woth just 2gb RAM?

SinaiSound · 5 Aug 2007 at 20:03

MeatLoaf said:
There is a known problem with X-Fi cards, 4Gb of RAM and an 8800 combo, loads about it on creative forums.

I'm running this combo and it's pretty much ok.

Had to re-install the driver a few times due to the microphone being a bit dodgy, but other than that, it's ok.

Jokester · 5 Aug 2007 at 20:05

It's an issue with the current drivers more than anything, reverting back to the previous set generally fixes the 4GB issue.

Jokester

lay-z-boy · 5 Aug 2007 at 20:43

MeatLoaf said:
There is a known problem with X-Fi cards, 4Gb of RAM and an 8800 combo, loads about it on creative forums.

Leave the x-fi in but remove 2gb ram and see if it still happens

Funny that, I don't get any problems with my xfi elite pro, didn't get any when i tested a xfi EA pci-e either.

Using a p5k del with xfi in the bottom slot, originally had some problems with it but they cleared up after i changed from the supplied bios.

On vista and xp x64.

marscay · 5 Aug 2007 at 22:10

no issues of any kind with X-Fi, P5K-DLX, 8800GTX and 4gb ram here....either during post or otherwise.

MeatLoaf · 5 Aug 2007 at 22:48

lay-z-boy said:
Funny that, I don't get any problems with my xfi elite pro, didn't get any when i tested a xfi EA pci-e either.

On vista and xp x64.

Only affects the cards without X-RAM so your elite pro would be fine

lay-z-boy · 5 Aug 2007 at 23:01

lay-z-boy said:
didn't get any when i tested a xfi EA pci-e either.

MeatLoaf said:
Only affects the cards without X-RAM so your elite pro would be fine

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-052-CL&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=

That card doesn't have any x-ram either.

MeatLoaf · 5 Aug 2007 at 23:53

lay-z-boy said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-052-CL&groupid=701&catid=11&subcat=

That card doesn't have any x-ram either.

You cant really compare that card tho as its a different bus and really is only a souped up audigy

Myself ive had problems running an extreme music in my board - ive tried 2 and neither worked.

I then tried the PCI-E x-fi and it was fine - in fact it was almost perfect i was very impressed with it.

Then i got a cheap Fatality off the MM yesterday and it was fine, works 100%

lay-z-boy · 5 Aug 2007 at 23:59

The pci version is a modded audigy, the pci-e version is a totally different chip and doesn't suffer 99.9% of the problems that some of the pci versions do.